AMD releases a new GPU driver to enhance mining performance stability

Love it or hate it, mining is here to stay

AMD releases a new GPU driver to enhance mining performance stability

Whether you love mining or hate mining, it is undeniably a part of the modern GPU market, giving PC users a way to utilise their graphics cards compute performance outside of gaming and other traditional compute workloads.

AMD has traditionally been one of the best performers in these mining workloads, with avid miners crying out to AMD for a new mining-centric GPU driver which optimises the GPU for blockchain compute workloads.

The Radeon Technologies Group has now released a new Radeon Software Beta driver for Blockchain Compute, a driver that is not intended for gaming workloads but provides additional stability and performance in Blockchain Compute workloads.

Seeing some initial testing from Legit Reviews, we can see increased hashrate performance for large DAG sizes with this new driver as well as increased overall performance on AMD's RX Vega. It has been noted that power draw is increased at these larger DAG sizes, but the increase in mining performance was more than worth the additional power draw.

This driver is provided as a beta level support driver which should be considered "as is" and will not be supported with further updates, upgrades or bug fixes.This driver is not intended for graphics or gaming workloads.

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Seriously? Like it isn't bad enough that GPU prices are inflated and availability is non-existent but AMD are actually supporting these arseholes? I've been a long time supporter of AMD but every news piece I've seen over the last few days has been heart-wrenchingly disappointing. Maybe I will be pairing an Nvidia card with a Ryzen CPU after all.Quote

Seriously? Like it isn't bad enough that GPU prices are inflated and availability is non-existent but AMD are actually supporting these arseholes? I've been a long time supporter of AMD but every news piece I've seen over the last few days has been heart-wrenchingly disappointing. Maybe I will be pairing an Nvidia card with a Ryzen CPU after all.

Not a big deal honestly. AMD needs the money. Smart for them to sell to people who are actually buying instead of trying to win over 1 out of 4 gamers.
The supply issue is also in part of the AIB partners to scared to order more stock than normal because they don't want to have a surplus like last time and get screwed over againQuote

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